Word: arced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlie Company were thinking about getting home for the holidays. We had been humping through the woods and the paddies all day, looking for North Vietnamese troops but not finding them. Then, just before dark, we walked into an ambush-a North Vietnamese battalion dug in in an arc around us. By nightfall a fourth of the company was dead or wounded, and we were pinned down, taking mortars and automatic-weapons fire...
Indeed, some of her best pieces hardly become "art" at all. Hangup, 1965-66, is a rectangular frame, "tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...first best-of-three-game doubles match, Carr and Teammate Robert Thiede, 29, vice president of a New Jersey metalworking firm, stunned the crowd by winning the first game. Perspiring heavily under the arc lights, British Champion Tommy O'Regan, 33, a London milkman, allowed that he would take off his jacket but "I have a hole in my shirt." Then, zeroing in, the rosy-cheeked Irishman and his partner, Alan Cooper, a 34-year-old bricklayer, won the next two games and repaired to the bar for a victory gin and lemon...
...fresh outburst of action has had clear effects. Not since 1968 have so many Communist troops been dug in so close to Saigon. Small-unit attacks are now coming from a 270° arc around the capital, and they draw closer every day. Reports TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "Watching the action on Highway 13 to the north of Saigon is like watching mortar rounds being walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough...
...mark. Fosse knows that at its core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse unleashes in Pippin is the spirit that flung railroads across a continent and raised skyscrapers to rake the heavens. At least that is the way you feel as you watch his dancers arc across the stage like tracer bullets. ∎T.E.Kalem